EN312: Engineering Project January 2012 Intake No 1 Project Title VF Control of Three-phase Induction Motor Aims To design and

develop a prototype model of a constant VF speed controller for inductions machines To design and develop a soft starter converter that implements the soft starting and soft stopping of an induction motor To design and develop an automatic power factor controller To design and develop an electronic console that is a banker in Monopoly board game To build a coffee maker that able to prepare coffee at pre-set time. Supervisor Reynato Gamboa

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Soft Starter for Speed Control for Induction Motors Automatic Power Factor Controller Electronic Banking Console for Monopoly Board Game Automated Coffee Maker

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Temperature Control for Test Fixture

To design a feedback control system to very accurately control the temperature of a test fixture Douglas Tong used for burn-in testing in a manufacturing setting. To design a Magnetic Levitation Demo Kit with feedback control system to accurately control the suspension of different magnetic materials of a range of different weights in its magnetic field

Magnetic Levitation Demo Apparatus

Douglas Tong

Automatic Buoyancy Control For Scuba Diving

Operation of a Wheelchair by Eye Movements

To design a feedback control system that is able to control the vertical motion of a scuba diver to Douglas Tong ensure vertical stability and controlled buoyancy underwater To develop a system that enables a person who is suffering a muscle strength decline or who has lost Salina bt. Mohmad an arm to operate a wheelchair using eye movements To build an autonomous car that is small in size (like a mouse) and it can navigate into any maze while avoiding any obstacles in the way To develop a wrist speed detector for sensing/recording the speed of the served ball To build a robot that can carry goods from one place to another by following a predetermined path indicated by a line on the floor Salina bt. Mohmad

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Autonomous Mouse Maze

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Wristband Speed Detector

Salina bt. Mohmad

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Line Following Robot for Transferring of Goods

Salina bt. Mohmad

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Wireless Kinematics Measurement System for Underwater Applications

To develop a wireless kinematics measurement system for underwater applications and to design a Ha Tshui Hung software for receiving, analysing and simulating the kinematic data recorded To develop a vision based human activity monitoring system and to design a software for analysing and simulating the recorded activities To develop a power saving home CCTV surveillience system To compare and contrast the performance of collaborative beamforming under different radio link environment and under different wireless standards To determine the cut-off frequency of the audio filter using adaptive nueral network methods To implement adaptive modulation coding (AMC) for Wimax environment and to analyse the BER improvement

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Vision Based Human Activity Monitoring System

Ha Tshui Hung

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Home CCTV Surveillience System Comparative Analysis of Collaborative Beamforming in Wireless Networks

Ha Tshui Hung

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Suhanya A/P Jayaprakasam

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Adaptive Audio Filtering using Neural Networks

Suhanya A/P Jayaprakasam

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Adaptive Modulation Coding in WiMAX

Suhanya A/P Jayaprakasam

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To develop a grid tied photovoltaic system to Grid Tied PV Systems with Battery Backup for Part Load supply part of a typical house with electricity at the Fara Jasmine Abdul Jamel Supply within a Household same time reducing the amount of greenhouse gasses emission in the atmosphere Custody Metering Monitoring System Using Labview To build a monitoring system for the crude metering system in a FSO application Fara Jasmine Abdul Jamel

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Grid Tied PV Systems with battery backup for part load supply within a commercial building

To develop a grid tied photovoltaic system to supply part of KDU University College with Fara Jasmine Abdul Jamel electricity at the same time reducing the amount of greenhouse gasses emission in the atmosphere To design of an optoelectronic device capable of measuring refractive index change ( n) in planar optical waveguides To realize a fully functional all digital phase lock loop capable of locking frequencies between 10 kHz 1 MHz in <1s in an FPGA (e.g., Xilinx Spartan 3 chip family) Lee Chong Yew

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Refractive Index Mapping of Optical Thin Films using Dual-Beam Differential Reflectance Technique All Digital Phase Lock Loop (ADPLL) Design, Simulation and Hardware Implementation

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Lee Chong Yew

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Design and Implementation of a 32-bit Microprocessor

To create a simple but powerful 32-bit microprocessor from scratch using the combination Lee Chong Yew of HDL and high level programming language To study and control the DC motor speed in order to improve the robustness and reduce the overshoot problem using an adaptive fuzzy logic controller (FLC)

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Adaptive Fuzzy Logic Controller Based PIC Microcontroller for DC Motor Speed Control

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Smart Antennas Based Cell-Site Diversity System for Rain To develop smart antennas based cell-site diversity Thennarasan a/l Sabapathy Fading Mitigation in LMDS Networks system for rain fading mitigation in LMDS networks A Low Cost Finite Impulse Response (FIR) Digital Filter Design with PIC Microcontroller using C Programming Vision Based Crowd Density Monitoring System To develop a digital filter design using low cost embedded system with PIC microcontrollers Thennarasan a/l Sabapathy

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Air Flow Control System using Fuzzy Logic

To design a system that able to recognize whether the area view by the camera is being crowded by Yew Foong Ching human To design a control system using Fuzzy Logic to maintain the humidity of a room with different density and size and to investigate the Yew Foong Ching performance of Fuzzy controller with the existing system using others controller To design a system that can monitor traffic flow status on the main road especially for peak hour Yew Foong Ching

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Traffic Flow Monitoring System Design and Construction of an Inverter for a SinglePhase Induction Motor Load Flow Program Power Factor Meter

To develop an inverter for a single-phase induction Lau Kim Boon motor To develop a load flow simulation program Lau Kim Boon To design and construct a microcontroller-based Lau Kim Boon power factor meter for single phase, 240 V systems